MAXCourage Privacy Policy
Last updated: March 9, 2026
Max Warburg Courage Curriculum, Inc., a Massachusetts nonprofit organization (“MAXCourage”, “Company”, “we”, “our”, or “us”), respects your privacy and is committed to protecting it through our compliance with this policy. This policy describes how we collect, process, retain, and disclose personal data about you when providing services to you through our websites, products, and services that link to this policy (our “Services”) and our practices for using, maintaining, protecting, and disclosing that information.
Please read this policy carefully to understand our policies and practices regarding your information and how we treat it. By interacting with our Services or providing us with your information, you agree to the collection, use, and sharing of your information as described in this privacy policy. This policy may change from time to time (see Changes to our Privacy Policy section). Your continued use of the Services after we make changes as described here is deemed to be acceptance of those changes, so please check the policy periodically for updates.
Important Information About Children’s Data
Our Services are designed for and marketed to educators, schools, and school administrators, not directly to students or children under the age of 18. Students cannot create accounts, sign up for services, or otherwise interact directly with our platform.
However, in connection with our curriculum programs and related writing initiatives, we may receive and process limited personal information relating to children under the age of 18 as described below.
Information We Collect:
We may collect student information through submissions from participating educators or schools. The types of student information we collect may include:
Student identifiers, such as first and last name;
School-related information, such as the student’s teacher’s name, school name, and school location (city and state);
Student-created content, including personal narrative essays submitted.
As a capstone experience of the program, participating schools may submit student-written essays for our National Essay Contest to be considered for publication in our annual anthology of student writing. If a student’s essay is selected for publication, the anthology may include:
The student’s name;
The student’s teacher and school (including city and state);
A student photograph, if provided in connection with publication;
The personal narrative essays submitted.
Student essays may, by their nature, include sensitive personal information, such as experiences related to adversity, fear, injustice, religion, identity, family circumstances, or extracurricular activities. We do not require students to include any specific personal details in their writing.
On a yearly basis, we collect video in order to spotlight schools. These videos typically include student first names, school names, audio, photos, and video of students and school personnel. The content may either be collected directly by MAXCourage at school visits or provided to us from school partners.
Additionally, we may collect, retain, and publicly use photographs taken at MAXCourage-sponsored events for email, social media, and use in advertising for future events.
How We Use Student Information:
Review and evaluate student essay submissions;
Select essays for recognition or publication;
Communicate with educators and schools regarding submissions;
Publish selected essays in our annual student anthology, when appropriate consent has been obtained;
Compilation of annual reports, grant applications, and other developmental materials.
The anthology is published as a physical book and distributed within schools and in a limited number of public settings. The anthology is also published as an ebook and made available through our website. We do not publish any student’s personal information or work without first obtaining express written consent from the student’s parent or legal guardian. This consent is required prior to inclusion of any student essay, identifying information, or photograph in the anthology or any publicly available materials.
Rights to Online-Published Student Information:
In compliance with applicable privacy laws, including the General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”) in the European Union and K-12 Pupil Online Personal Information Protection Act (KOPIPA), students published in our e-book or a parent or legal guardian may have certain rights to the personal data posted. For more information on your rights, please see Your State Privacy Rights section below.
The Personal Data That We Collect or Process
“Personal data” is information that identifies, relates to, or describes, directly or indirectly, you as an individual.
The types and categories of personal data we collect or process include:
Account and contact information, including name, address (such as home address, work address, or other address), email address, phone number, username, and other contact information you provide us.
Financial information, including credit card or debit card information and bank account information.
Account history, including information about your subscription, account, transactions, or purchases.
General location information (excluding precise geolocation), including general geographic location such as country, state or province, or city.
Content and information you elect to provide as part of your profile or in any reviews you make through the Services or emails, chats, or other communications sent to us.
Professional or employment-related information, including the school and district name, grade-level taught, and number of students.
Information submitted on forms on our website such as to contact us or volunteer to judge the National Essay Contest. These forms include name, address, email, phone number, and dietary restrictions.
Financial information identified above may be considered sensitive data under certain laws. We will collect and process sensitive personal data only with your consent when you submit it on our website.
We also collect:
Technical information. Technical information includes information about your internet connection and usage details about your interactions with the Services, such as clickstream information to, through, and from our Services (including date and time), products that you view or search for; page response times, download errors, length of your visits to certain pages, page interaction information (such as scrolling, clicks, and mouse-overs), or methods used to browse away from a page.
Such information is not identifiable to you and not considered personal data. If we combine or connect non-personal technical data with personal data so that it directly or indirectly identifies an individual, we treat the combined information as personal data.
How We Collect Your Personal and Other Data
Information You Provide to Us
We collect information about you when you interact with our Services, such as when you:
Register for the curriculum;
Subscribe to our newsletter;
Submit forms on our website such as to contact us or volunteer to judge the National Essay Contest;
Make a donation;
Upload content to the Services.
Automatically Through Our Services
As you navigate through and interact with our Services, we may use automatic data collection technologies to collect information. Using automatic collection technologies helps us to improve our Services and to deliver a better and more personalized experience. The technologies we use for this automatic data collection may include:
Cookies. A cookie is a small file placed on your device when you interact with the Services. You may refuse to accept or disable cookies by activating the appropriate setting on your browser or device. However, if you select this setting, you may be unable to access certain features of the Services.
Web Beacons. Some parts of the Services may contain small electronic files known as web beacons (also referred to as clear gifs, pixel tags, and single-pixel gifs) that permit the Company, for example, to count users who have visited those parts or for other related statistics (for example, recording the popularity of certain content and verifying system and server integrity).
Information collected automatically may include usage details, operating system, and browser type, and information collected through cookies and web beacons, including details of your interactions with our Services, such as traffic data and location data (but not precise geolocation). However, such information is not identifiable to you and not considered personal data.
How We Use Your Information
We use information that we collect about you or that you provide to us, including any personal data, to:
Provide you with the Services and any contents, features, information, products, or services that we make available through the Services.
Provide and manage subscriptions.
Provide information about events.
Contact you about donation campaigns.
Accept donations.
Notify you when Services updates are available and about changes to any products or services we offer or provide through them.
In any other way we may describe when you provide the information.
For any other purpose with your consent.
If you do not want us to use your information in this way, you may select “unsubscribe” in the emails received or email us at info@maxcourage.com. For more information, see Your State Privacy Rights section.
To Whom We Disclose Your Information
We do not disclose personal information to third parties in exchange for monetary consideration or other valuable consideration. This includes personal information relating to educators, school administrators, and students. Accordingly, we do not offer a “Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information” mechanism.
We may disclose personal data that we collect or you provide as described in this privacy policy for our legitimate business purposes:
To service providers we use to support our organization, including:
Bloomerang, as our customer relationship management provider;
Submittable, to submit student essays;
Square Space, to host our website;
Yumpu, to host our student essay e-book on our website;
Other service providers as necessary to fullfill our Services.
To a buyer or other successor in the event of a merger, divestiture, restructuring, reorganization, dissolution, or other sale or transfer of some or all of MAXCourage assets, whether as a going concern or as part of bankruptcy, liquidation, or similar proceeding, in which personal data held by MAXCourage is among the assets transferred.
To fulfill the purpose for which you provide it.
For any other purpose disclosed by us when you provide the information.
With your consent.
We may also disclose your personal data:
To comply with any court order, law, or legal process, including to respond to any government or regulatory request.
If we believe disclosure is necessary or appropriate to protect the rights, property, or safety of our organization, our customers, or others. This includes exchanging information with other companies and organizations for the purposes of fraud protection and credit risk reduction.
We may disclose aggregated information about our users without restriction, such as total number of donors or total number of donations per year.
Your State Privacy Rights
Individuals located in the European Union and certain states located in the United States, depending on your state of residency, may have certain rights related to your personal data, including:
Access and Data Portability. You may confirm whether we process your personal data and access a copy of the personal data we process. To the extent feasible, data will be provided in a portable format. Depending on your state, you may have the right to receive additional information and it will be included in the response to your access request.
Correction. You may request that we correct inaccuracies in your personal data that we maintain, taking into account the nature of the information and processing purpose.
Deletion. You may request that we delete personal data about you that we maintain, subject to certain exception under applicable law.
Opt Out of Using Personal Data for Targeted Advertising, Profiling, and Sales. You may request that we do not use your personal data for these purposes. However, we do not currently engage in target advertising, profiling, or the sale of your personal data.
To exercise any of these rights, please email us at info@maxcourage.org or contact us at the following address or phone number:
Max Warburg Courage Curriculum, Inc.
263 Huntington Avenue, Box 366
Boston, MA 02115
United States
617-373-7399
When you make a request, we may require that you provide information and follow procedures to verify the request before responding to it. The verification steps we take may differ depending on the request you make. We will match the information that you provide in your request (including your email and physical address) to information we already have on file to verify your identity. If we are able to verify your identity, we will begin to process it. If we cannot verify your identity, we may ask you for additional information to help us verify your request. If we still cannot verify your identity, we will notify you with further explanation.
You may have the right to appeal a decision regarding a consumer rights request. To appeal a decision, please email us at info@maxcourage.org or contact us at the following address or phone number:
Max Warburg Courage Curriculum, Inc.
263 Huntington Avenue, Box 366
Boston, MA 02115
United States
617-373-7399
How We Protect Your Personal Data
We use commercially reasonable administrative, physical, and technical measures designed to protect your personal data from accidental loss or destruction and from unauthorized access, use, alteration, and disclosure. However, no website, mobile application, system, electronic storage, or online service is completely secure, and we cannot guarantee the security of your personal data transmitted to, through, using, or in connection with the Services. In particular, email, texts, and chats sent to or from the Services may not be secure, and you should carefully decide what information you send to us via such communications channels. Any transmission of personal data is at your own risk.
The safety and security of your information also depends on you. You are responsible for taking steps to protect your personal data against unauthorized use, disclosure, and access.
If you are visiting the website from outside the United States, your connection will be through and to servers located in the United States. The information you provide will be transferred outside your location (e.g. the EU/UK), and will be securely stored in our web servers and internal systems located in the United States. Whenever we transfer your personal data outside of the EU, UK, or other location outside the US, we afford it a degree of protection as required by law.
How We Retain Your Personal Data
We keep the categories of personal data described in this policy until you request to delete it or for as otherwise legally permitted or required, such as maintaining the Services, operating our organization, complying with our legal obligations, resolving disputes, and for safety, security, and fraud prevention. This means that we consider our legal and business obligations, potential risks of harm, and nature of the information when deciding how long to retain personal data.
Changes to Our Privacy Policy
We may update this policy from time to time, and we will provide notice of any such changes to the policy as required by law. The date the privacy policy was last updated is identified at the top of the page. We will notify you of changes to this policy by updating the “last updated” date and posting the updated policy on the Services. We may email or otherwise communicate reminders about this policy, but you should check our Services periodically to see the current policy and any changes we have made to it.
Contact Information
To exercise your rights, ask questions, or comment about this privacy policy or our privacy practices, contact us at:
Max Warburg Courage Curriculum, Inc.
263 Huntington Avenue, Box 366
Boston, MA 02115
United States
Email: info@maxcourage.org
Phone: 617-373-7399